Archive - Systems under Load

March 2026

Why Kubernetes HPA Didn’t Scale When CPU Was Above 100%

and the hidden impact of unready pods

Mar 22 • Kannan Anandakrishnan

January 2026

Understanding How Deployment Pods Are Named in Kubernetes

One of my favorite interview questions is about pod names in Kubernetes.

Jan 24 • Kannan Anandakrishnan

When One AWS Tag Broke Our Production NLB

Last year, we started noticing a strange issue in several of our AWS EKS clusters.

Jan 11 • Kannan Anandakrishnan

Why I'm Writing Again

and What this space will be

Jan 4 • Kannan Anandakrishnan

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